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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Yeah - it was very shrwed placement.
She was 5th, got beat about 10 lengths at 15/1 odds, with a 109 Beyer.
That year's Distaff was won by Ashado with a 102.
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And nobody would have cared about her winning the Distaff for a second time. Whether she raced there or not didn't change the fact that we already knew she was the best older female in the country. The greats become the greats because they are always taking on new challenges, not handling the same ones over and over.
I only wish that Azeri could have been tried in some of those spots in 2003 instead of having to wait another year. As good as she was in 2004, I thought she was better in 2003.
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